Excerpted from today's press release: Founding Farmers, the new eco-friendly concept on course to be Washington DC’s greenest restaurant, announced today the official opening date of Thursday, September 18, with dinner service. Friday, September 19 will be the first full day to include breakfast, lunch and dinner, featuring Founding Farmers’ menu of true food and drink inspired by American Family Farmers. The restaurant is located at 1924 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 20th & Penn. Ave., three blocks from the White House.

Menu items are primarily made with sustainably farmed, or sustainably sourced products, including in-season vegetables and fruits whenever possible. Not ‘kitschy’ country cooking, the dishes include family farm favorites like fresh-baked biscuits, breads and pastries, omelettes, pancakes, and all the breakfast trimmings, big, hearty rustic farm sandwiches and soups, colorful green salads with just-picked vegetables, a variety of pot pies, prime cuts, pot roast, roasted chicken, and rich, delectable pies and desserts from the in-house bakery.

The 8,500 square foot space has been designed to meet Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification criteria by the US Green Building Council, (USGBC) and operates as a Certified Green Restaurant, as approved by the Green Restaurant Association, with strict standards to reduce waste, recycle more, and practice earth-friendly food service from the front of the house to the back of the house.

More details at http://www.WeAreFoundingFarmers.com.

Very intriguing to a tree hugger like me!

- G

What could be bigger than a green restaurant in this concrete city? Is Alice Waters coming to town? Gordon Ramsay? This better be major news!

- G

Word has it that Gordon Ramsey is going into the old Maestro space in...TYSONS CORNER....yup, with no car and no Metro access I'll probably eat there as much as I did Maestro.